"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”
Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.
@mwyman my only quibble is with your last six words. The simple truth that too many nerds and content people can’t seem to get through their heads is that the Google that cared about what I “wanted to see” has been gone for a decade.
Google has no interest in helping me find what I want. The mission of Google is not to organize all of the world’s information.
@maxleibman but Google thinks you want to see what *they* want you to see.
And Google is all about organizing all the world’s information. Just not providing it back in any way other than ones that make them bank.
@mwyman @maxleibman That second point made me think of them like a museum.
In the "British Museum" context, that is ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJPLiT1kCSM&feature=share7 ).
John Oliver discusses some of the world’s most prestigious museums, why they contain so many stolen goods, the market that continues to illegally trade antiq...
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